The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-08-11
IOWA STATE NEWS.

IOWA STATE NEWS.
Six persons have drowned at Clinton
this summer.
Over 500 head Ct cattle have been
sent west from Monona.
Grassnoppers did more damage at
New Hampton than chinch bugs.
The colored people Of Council Bluffs
celebrated Emancipation Day August 1.
The amount Of warrants drawn from
the State Treasury from June so, 1885,
% June so, 1887, was $2,577,O19.05.
w. H. Rickerson, Of the Adel New
Era, was married at Atlantic to Miss
Eva G. Jones. daughter Of H. I. Jones.
Young farmer Zugg, whose arms
we're severed by a mower attached to q
runaway team Saturday, died near Du-
buquc.
j. G. Elcholtz has been appointed
Sheriff Of Ida county by the Board OF
Supervisors In place Of 7. n. Parott.
suspended.
Fred Horne, Of Davenport, has mys.
tcriously disappeared in Chicago. moth
ing having been heard from him since
the 11th inst.
Gen. I. E. Powell, Democratic can
didate for Governor Ct Ohio, was in
Clinton representing Sells circus in
the recent shooting affair.
Dubuque and Maquoketa people are
talking up q railroad. to start at the
former and run through the latter place.
with Kansas City an objective point.
A 13-year old son Of Louis Elzroth
fell from . cottonwood tree in . grove
just west Of Carroll Wednesday after
noon, and broke his neck, dying instant
y.
Governor Larrabee has received q
pressing invitation to attend the Ma
ational Agricultural Exposition at Kan
sas City, from September Is to Novem-
Der /.
A meeting was held at Clinton, to or
ganizc a military company to take the
place of the Carroll company, disband-
ed. A permanent organization will be
effected soon.
Albert Bell, Of Sioux Rapids, was the
first settler in the wide territory be-
tween Fort Dodge and Sioux Falls. He
has the honor Of having filled every Of
fee in Ruena Vista county.
The Iowa river has turned green
from the effects Of the dry weather
and the vegetable particles floating in
It, and the people along its banks are
are apprehensive Of malaria.
The Atlantic canning company ha.
spent $5,0 900 in improving their factory.
Among the improvements is new
engine house, new boilers, new engine
and . substantial chimney sixty-five fee,
high.
Two hundred head Of cattle, including
Ave spring calves, were shipped from
Postvillc to pastures west, that cost tn,
buyer on an average only 50 Ter head
The lot was made up from l to 3-year
old cows and steers.
Michael Shanagan swan the MlsSis
sippi river at Burlington and attempte,
to swim back again, but went down il
the middle Of the stream and has no
since been heard from. He was simpl,
minded, but q good swimmer.
An itinerant vendor of spectacles
"Prof." Strasman, now working
Ottumwa. was on Monday compelled
by the President of the State Pharmac,
Commission to pay = 500 license 70
the privilege Of working in this State
Charles Wilkins. laborer ut Pacifi,
Junction. has been bound over to awai
the action Of the grand jury under tn
charge ofhaving forged his new mother
in-law's written consent to the marriag
Of her daughter under age in order 4
obtain the license.
James Smith, Of Ottumwa, was ar
rested Friday charged with selling in
toxicating liquors contrary to law. Thi
being the second ofenss the Mayor, al
ter hearing the evidence. held Smith ii
bonds Of $500 to appear at the mex
term Of the District Court, in default o
which he was sent to Jail.
At Swan one day last week . traml
came to town. and while loafing aroun,
the mines hc found mysterious look
Ing affair and commenced picking at it
and the thing went off with the resul
that three fingers and q thumb wer
blown nearly to pieces on the left han,
and one finger on the right hand.
! At Vinton q little girl three or fou
years old was playing about o pump
and stepped on the end Of a loos
board, which covered the we'll, whic
tipped and let her down into q twenty
foot we'll. Like most OF tho wells ther
was not a great deal Of water. Strang
to say the little girl was only slight
hnrt.
A second amputation Of tho arm q
Frank Harlock, the young man VIII
got under the wheels Of . Chicago
Northwestern freight car, ut Ceda
Rapids, about ten days ago, was foun
necessary. owing 10 the bruised cond
ton Of the arm near the shoulder, an
the same was performed. He wi
hardly recover.
The Osceola Sentinel says that it
Iumored that work will be commence
on the double track Of the G at Woot
, burn within week, and thence wes
ward. A force from ono to two hui
drcd men will be put on. The officia
of the special train last week. told th
Murray people the road would Q,
pend about two hundred thousand do
lars there and eastward.
A What Cheer item says that With
few days three men baye been sent
the county Jail, and one paid tine .
800 and costs for selling liquor co,
-ary to law, and other parties wei
hunted up so close that they conclude
best for them to leave, so they ha,
skipped out and probably have take
Greeley's advice and gone west.
About two weeks ago an Is month
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